- 1997 Super Rugby Final, Eden Park, Auckland: Blues win second straight title with a 23-7 victory over ACT Brumbies; fullback Adrian Cashmore lands 3 penalties & 2 conversions for the winners
- 1997 The Confederation Bridge opens, linking Prince Edward Island with mainland New Brunswick
- 1999 NHL Eastern Conference Final: Buffalo Sabres beat Toronto Maple Leafs, 4 games to 1
- 2002 NHL Western Conference Final: Detroit Red Wings beat Colorado Avalanche, 4 games to 3
- 2002 The New Jersey Nets defeat the Boston Celtics 96-88 in Game 6 of the NBA's Eastern Conference Championship, winning the series 4 games to 2 to advance to their first NBA Finals appearance.
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
2004 "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban", the 3rd film based on the books by J. K. Rowling is released in UK cinemas
- 2004 British children's cartoon "Peppa Pig" created by Astley Baker Davies premieres on Channel 5
Senior PGA Championship
2004 Senior PGA Championship, Valhalla GC: Hale Irwin wins his 4th title in the event by 1 stroke ahead of runner-up Jay Haas
- 2005 Mark Felt, former FBI high ranking official revealed as "Deep Throat" source during Watergate investigations in "Vanity Fair" article
Super Rugby Final
2008 Super Rugby Final, Christchurch: Canterbury Crusaders claim their 7th title with a 20-12 win over NSW Waratahs; Dan Carter kicks 4 penalties & a dropped goal for the home team
Bolt Sets 100m Record
2008 Usain Bolt breaks the world record in the 100m sprint, with a wind-legal (+1.7m/s) 9.72 seconds
- 2010 Gaza Flotilla raid: Israeli Shayetet 13 soldiers board ships trying to break blockade of Gaze, during violent confrontation aboard MV Mavi Marmara 9 activists killed and several activists and soldiers injured
- 2012 Egypt formally ends its 31 year state of emergency
- 2013 First tornado chaser to be killed by a tornado; Tim Samara and two others killed by El Reno tornado in Oklahoma, the widest ever recorded at 2.6 miles (4.2 km)
- 2015 5th Critics' Choice Television Awards: Silicon Valley wins Best Comedy Series, The Americans win Best Drama Series
- 2015 Harriette Thompson aged 92 and 65 days becomes the oldest woman to complete a marathon (Suja Rock ’n’ Roll Marathon in San Diego)
Kathy Griffin Fired
2017 Comedienne Kathy Griffin fired from CNN after photo of her holding bloody head resembling Donald Trump by Tyler Shields posted
Madaraka Express
2017 Kenya's Madaraka Express, a Chinese-built high speed railway from Mombasa to Nairobi is opened by Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta
- 2018 Danish government bans garments that cover the face, including the niqab and burqa
Kim Kardashian Meets Trump
2018 Kim Kardashian West meets US President Donald Trump at the White House to discuss prison reform
LeBlanc Leaves Top Gear
2018 Matt LeBlanc announces he is leaving TV show "Top Gear"
- 2018 Uganda's parliament imposes tax on social media to stop gossip
- 2019 Disgruntled employee shoots and kills 12 people at a US municipal building in Virginia Beach, Virginia
A New Batman
2019 Former "Twilight" star Robert Pattinson is announced as the new Batman
- 2019 US President Donald Trump threatens to impose extra 5% tax on Mexican goods if country does not increase its efforts to curb immigration
- 2021 China's ruling Communist Party announces it will allow married couples to have three children, in effort to boost falling birthrates [1]
Osaka Leaves the French Open
2021 Naomi Osaka pulls out of the French Open citing her mental health, after refusing to appear at compulsory post match press conferences
- 2021 Peru says its COVID-19 death toll is three times higher than its official count (180,764 vs 68,000), making it one of the hardest hit countries per capita
- 2021 Tulsa, Oklahoma, marks 100 year anniversary of the massacre of hundreds of black residents by a white mob in the Greenwood neighborhood
- 2022 Lost 3,400 year-old Bronze Age city unearthed on the Tigris river, Iraq due to drought, likely part of the Mittani Empire, including 100 cuneiform tablets [1]
- 2023 Latvia elects its Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkevics as President - first openly gay leader of a Baltic state [1]
- 2023 Los Angeles County jury convicts American actor Danny Masterson on two of three counts of forcible rape
- 2023 NASA panel investigating unidentified flying objects at its first open meeting highlights stigma involved in reporting sightings and lack of high-quality data (mysterious radio signals turned out to be a local microwave) [1]
